Hi Maximilien, On 11/20/2010 01:51 PM, Maximilien Renard wrote:
I've just installed Linux (K)Ubuntu 10.10 as well as R and I'm stuck with a very annoying problem. I've compiled the latest R version from the sources without any problem, sadly when I start R in a terminal, it does not behave as expected. In fact, I cannot use the arrow keys (up, down, left, right) because they are automatically replaced with things like ^[[A I have no idea if it R related or not but it is very annoying and I'd appreciate any help.
You need to compile R with readline support (and for that libreadline-dev needs to be installed IIRC). Best, Tobias ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
